Category: Emerging Artist Award

EA Winner: AH Jerriod Avant

Emerging Artist Award: Literature

“It’s always a boost of encouragement when people who love poetry and the arts, recognize you and your work. Having been awarded an emerging artist grant from the Saint Botolph Club Foundation, I was able to forgo seeking time-consuming summer work, I was able to cover essential bills while traveling to and spending invaluable time in Mississippi where most of the poems in my manuscript-in-progress were written and conceptualized. The current manuscript was at a pivotal point last summer. It needed the attention equivalent of a summer to pen a small number of new works, make individual revisions and survey the entire text for cohesiveness. The Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant was timely and extremely instrumental in the progress of my writing. It carved out for me, the time necessary to dedicate toward the careful shaping of what will become my first collection of poems.” – A. H. Jerriod Avant

EA Winner: Destiny Palmer

Destiny Palmer
Destiny Palmer

2018 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Destiny Palmer, Nellie Taft Award Winner for Painting

“To win this award is to be validated, to be heard and seen, in what I do as an artist. I’m grateful to have been given the stability to continue my growth in my paintings. ”

 

Destiny Palmer

Let my body hang.
2018
Acrylic, Ink and pastel on canvas (unstretched)
96″ x 84″

EA Winner: Christopher Volpe

CHRISTOPHER VOLPE

2017 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Christopher Volpe, Nellie Taft Award Winner for Painting

Dive (‘Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked from the skies and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!’)
2017
48” x 60,” oil and tar on canvas

EA Winner: Ashleigh Gordon

Dennis, Cape Cod, MA
Dennis, Cape Cod, MA

Emerging Artist Award: Music

“The St. Botolph award allowed me to meld some of my biggest passions: traveling, new music and culture. Coming at just the right time, the Emerging Artist Grant allowed me to perform contemporary music in the 180 Degrees Festival, a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary arts fest in Sofia, Bulgaria. Covering not only my travel and performing fees, the Grant also allowed me to design and lead a lecture presentation for Bulgarian audiences focused on the music of African American composers, a topic which I am knee-deep in exploring through my concert and educational series Castle of our Skins. With the generosity of the St. Botolph Club, I was fortunate to further develop my craft with new artists and audiences in new territory. Thank you for the invaluable opportunity, and the support and encouragement to continue exploring new music, locations and cultures!”